ARABIC-L: LING: More on glottal lingual activity

[Dilworth B. Parkinson]

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Date: 08 Jun 1999
From: John Leake <j.e.s.leake at ibm.net>
Subject: More on glottal lingual activity

Bahana (Bahana59 at aol.com) wrote
>>  How is it pronounced?
> [The hamza] is also similar to the sound the british make in pronouncing the
> "tt" in the word bottel.

... the "tt" in the word "bottle" _in the Cockney dialect (and in some
other London and regional dialects)_.
It's also the sound in the middle of the interjection "oh-oh!".

John Leake

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